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The death of Patrick Lee was an accident
Topic: Local Information 5:36 pm EDT, Oct  1, 2005

Dagmar has posted a well thought out argument about the Patrick Aaron Lee situation over at LiveJournal.

Tragically, Patrick Lee died last Saturday after having taken a bunch of drugs and winding up in an altercation with the police. Unfortunately the family and a few friends are acting "a-fool" and apparently trying to claim this is a case of police brutality, regardless that the responding officers demonstrated remarkable restraint in their attempts to restrain a guy who was basically running around a parking lot naked.

I've gotten more than a little irritated about this, since under normal circumstances a Taser is a really safe thing to be using (as opposed to batons and bullets), and taking them off the streets is just going to get more people hurt that could probably have been brought under control with a taser. Therefore I have summarized events and countered some of the deliberate misinformation in hopes that this information is going to make it's way into the proper hands and hopefully put some minds to rest.

Regardless of whether he was relatively irresponsible, he will be missed.

I'm of the opinion that more research needs to be done on Taser usage before any reasonable conclusions can be drawn.

Update: Dagmar's post has really been making the rounds.

The death of Patrick Lee was an accident



 
 
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